Finance Minister urges India Inc to help build consensus on economic reforms

20 Jan 2012 Evaluate

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, addressing the FICCI's 84th Annual General Meeting, urged India Inc. to help build consensus on economic reforms. While, agreeing to the fact that the efforts made by the government to bring about economic reforms had not yielded fruits on some fronts, he could not be blamed for not trying. Commenting on his government’s failure to push through reforms like FDI in multi brand retail and other legislative amendments he said that this was the nature of democracy and at times reforms get overtaken by political events. He agreed that there was a need to rebuild trust especially after the unearthing of alleged scams in telecom and Commonwealth Games. There was also a perception that economic growth was faltering on account of ‘policy paralyses and lack of legislative changes to push reforms.

Mukherjee further said that global uncertainty too did not help. But on the governments part there had been a host of policy measures which lent credence to the government’s commitment to economic reforms. He asked corporate to demonstrate willingness to support reforms and marry their economic interests with larger social responsibilities. On its part, corporate India urged the Government not to judge industry by “deviants”. They also called for change in the relationship between Government and industry. They felt that there was an urgent need to rebuild trust and remove hurdles inhibiting growth.

On a more positive note, outgoing FICCI President, Harsh Mariwala said the India story was still alive and that “we are in a sweet spot”. He admitted that industry had to self-regulate and internalise business ethics and it was also crucial that the Government gave the private sector credit for creating wealth and value for the country.

 

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